3D Realms is shutting down according to a report on
Shacknews that's
confirmed by a post on the
3D
Realms Forums by Joe Siegler, who says: "It's not a marketing thing. It's
true. I have nothing further to say at this time." 3D Realms has been otherwise
silent on this topic so far, but publisher Deep Silver and newly formed Apogee
are unaffected by the news, as they say: "Deep Silver and Apogee Software are
not affected by the situation at 3D Realms. Development on the Duke Nukem
Trilogy is continuing as planned." According to Shack the closure is due to
funding issues, and they have a statement from Take Two who claim to still own
publishing rights to Duke Nukem Forever, but that they
have not been funding development of 3D Realms' flagship game.

Well I guess now it truly can be called vaporware. It always had a chance of actually getting released, as mild as that chance may have been.

But really if Take Two wasn't funding the project it sounds to me like it took so long to make because a handful of guys were working on it like some pet project working for peanuts over the years.

Though, a lot of other (possibly better) development houses have gone under over the years. I mean.. I can only think of one game that was good from you guys in the last decade, and that was the all-to-short Prey.